Biosequence Formats
Known Formats
ID / Name / Read / Write / Int'leaf / Features / Sequence / Content-type / Suffix1 / GenBank|gb / yes / yes / -- / yes / yes / biosequence/genbank / .gb
2 / EMBL|em / yes / yes / -- / yes / yes / biosequence/embl / .embl
3 / Pearson|Fasta|fa / yes / yes / -- / -- / yes / biosequence/fasta / .fasta
4 / GCG / yes / yes / -- / -- / yes / biosequence/gcg / .gcg
5 / MSF / yes / yes / yes / -- / yes / biosequence/msf / .msf
6 / Clustal / yes / yes / yes / -- / yes / biosequence/clustal / .aln
7 / NBRF / yes / yes / -- / -- / yes / biosequence/nbrf / .nbrf
8 / PIR|CODATA / yes / yes / -- / -- / yes / biosequence/codata / .pir
9 / ACEDB / yes / yes / -- / -- / yes / biosequence/acedb / .ace
10 / Phylip3.2 / yes / yes / yes / -- / yes / biosequence/phylip2 / .phylip2
11 / Phylip|Phylip4 / yes / yes / yes / -- / yes / biosequence/phylip / .phylip
12 / Plain|Raw / yes / yes / -- / -- / yes / biosequence/plain / .seq
13 / PAUP|NEXUS / yes / yes / yes / -- / yes / biosequence/nexus / .nexus
14 / XML / yes / yes / -- / yes / yes / biosequence/xml / .xml
15 / FlatFeat|FFF / yes / yes / -- / yes / -- / biosequence/fff / .fff
16 / GFF / yes / yes / -- / yes / -- / biosequence/gff / .gff
17 / BLAST / yes / -- / yes / -- / yes / biosequence/blast / .blast
18 / Pretty / -- / yes / yes / -- / yes / biosequence/pretty / .pretty
19 / SCF / yes / -- / -- / -- / yes / biosequence/scf / .scf
20 / DNAStrider / yes / yes / -- / -- / yes / biosequence/strider / .strider
21 / IG|Stanford / yes / yes / -- / -- / yes / biosequence/ig / .ig
22 / Fitch / -- / -- / -- / -- / yes / biosequence/fitch / .fitch
23 / ASN.1 / -- / -- / -- / -- / yes / biosequence/asn1 / .asn
ID is a number that can be used for this format (name is prefered). Alternate names are separated by '|'. You can use any of these to specify a format. Read and Write specify whether Readseq can read and write this format. Int'leaf means the format is interleaved. Features says if sequence record documentation and features are parsed. Sequence indicates if the format contains sequence data. Content-type is the magic string sent for that format thru a CGI web server. The suffix is the standard file suffix used for that format.